livingcode.org seems a logical and appropriate place for a Python Courseware Moodle.
If you feel led, have the time, I think you should set it up and keep tight control of security. Mete out accounts as you see fit, with the right to revoke. It's your server and you should treat it as such, not as community property. Then the moodles themselves will belong to their authors, internal to the infrastructure you provide, as Dungeon Master (DM).
Anyway, that's one model for a Moodle. Just a proposal, obviously, since it involves you doing the work.
My first step, if given a teacher account, would be to move a copy of my Algebra with Python course to it.
Kirby
PS: I'm curious about the specs regarding this host. Do you want to handle the bandwidth that might be needed if word gets out that livingcode has some of the latest and greatest learning materials in the "programming to learn" genre? Of course if transferring content proves as easy as I hope, then other Python Moodles could pop up to help distribute the work load. I might even bring one on-line someday, if I ever get a bigger crew together locally.
On 1/27/06, Dethe Elza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a server that I'd be willing to use to host a Python moodle.
Do you want me to set it up, or would you rather I give you access?
It's livingcode.org (pardon the front page, I'm in the process of
building a new one) and it's a dreamhosts site, so it's got PHP,
MySQL, python, and lots of other goodies built in.
--Dethe
On 27-Jan-06, at 8:12 PM, kirby urner wrote:
> Here's an idea. Given a lot of us teach Python, plan to, or have
> ideas for
> doing so, if we had shared access to a Python Moodle someplace, we
> could
> develop open source courseware, either as individuals or in teams.
>
> The Algebra with Python stuff I'm doing could be cloned to the new
> site.
> I'm pretty sure the backup zip I'm able to create through the
> interface,
> will restore to another Moodle. I could easily transfer the
> content in that
> case. Others could roll their own.
>
> Seems like a good idea (didn't someone already propose this?). I'm
> sure
> there are plenty of alternatives to Moodle, but so far it seems like a
> pretty workable solution to a problem. It's more vertical market than
> Plone, i.e. is built from the ground up with distance education
> courseware
> in mind.
>
> I don't have the server or the time to get a Moodle up and
> running. But if
> someone in the Python community does, and wants to use edu-sig as a
> staging
> ground and talent pool, I bet we could go places with it. Lots of new
> tutorials, useless python and vaults of parnassus type stuff could
> be recast
> in a more distance education friendly format.
>
> Kirby
> 4D/OCN
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